Farmer Friday

Picking tunas; aka prickly pear fruit

This week I realized that the prickly pear near my house were ripe so I picked about 10-12 pounds one day and about that much another day. The second batch is in the freezer waiting to be processed and there are more getting ripe.

processing prickly pear fruit

Since I'm not saving the skins or pulp (just don't have time to deal with extra projects!) I freeze them whole, then let them thaw and mash with a potatoe masher. I strain the juice through layers of cheese cloth at least three times, to get all the little glochids, the tiny hair like thorns, out of the juice.

New Goat Milk Products, lotion and sugar scrub with prickly pear

My research says that prickly pear has healing properties similar to aloe vera

different kinds of eggplant

This week's tomato harvest was negligible but the eggplants are coming on strong.

That is the 4th diamondback this summer

Watch this video and see what Freya Cat does to that snake!

Double rainbow Friday evening

Haven't gotten a lot of rain lately but the sunsets and rainbows have been beautiful

There's more from the week in this video.

Have a great weekend and stay tuned for a Harvest Monday post!!